books.google.com - Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 - August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Civilization_of_the_Renaissance_in_I.html?id=ioXCEBcBtT0C&q=matter&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy